Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1878 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1878.

CLOAKS. ■ORE NEW GOODS TO-DAY. LADIES, call and au Umm Goods, m they art Um haadaomeat yet brought out.

eiKHIRTSSilk, Flannel and Felt skirts. We have juit opened a fine stock ot these goods. Some Tery elegant goods, as well aa some of the cheapest goods in America.

Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE,

Carpetings. BRUSSELS, INGRAINS, HEMP, WOOL DUTCH, RAG CARPETS, Oil Cloth and Oil Cloth Rugs, In ml aises, Newest Designs and Lowest Prices. A, L. WRIGHT & CO., 47 and 49 South Meridiem St. M TIM OF IT! SILVER PLATED IK IN XVE5S &X.Q5 I*ox* Set.

Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. WASHINGTON ST., BIO OP THE STREET CLOCK, THE DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1878.

The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Denial does not necessarily deny. “The electoral fraud” cute quite a small figure in the present canvass. Congress probably will have so much investigating to do that it can let finances alone. The speech of Congressman House, of Tennessee, against any sectional strife mixing in the political contest of 1880, will find an echo everywhere except in the hearts of a few unscrupulous politicians in the north, and perhaps some in the south, who would if they could rouse hatred again. They intend to try, and it does not take many taunts to inflame old prejudices. But we trust and believe that the great mass of the people north and south, in the political campaign of 1880, will act as they have in the yellow fever campaign of°1878, in kindness, good will and charity. The council last night struck two blows for. economy and reform, for which it should have full credit. It concurred in the report from the judiciary committee and the city attorney providing, first, that all cases in the mayor’s court shall be prosecuted under the city ordinances where it is possible to do so; second, that no fees or per cent, be allowed any officer of the city, but that all shall be paid by salary. If the board of aldermen unite in this determination, and it is enforced, it will not only add considerebly to the city revenues, but do away with certain possibilities of corruption. Henry Havemeyer to whom it will be remembered most of the cipher telegrams were addressed, makes it worse for the plotters. Thi y seized upon his name and used his house for the reception of their communications, having them delivered from there. They did it without Mr. Havemeyer’s consent and finally desisted at his request. This is the last seal of condemnation that can be set on this rascally business except by a full, confession of the rascals. They had not even the courage to receive the evidences of their scoundrelism under an intricate cipher, but used the namie and home of an innocent man as a cover.

The Madison Courier U somewhat embittered by its failure to prove corruption on the part of the state house commissioners in the matter of importing votes, for which The News rebuked it at the time, and much chagrined at the success of Judge New in the recent election against the bitter personal warfare it made, which The News cited as an example of the folly of trying to make a living issue out of an ante-bellum incident Since then it has been industriously trying to “get even” by the small-boy tactics of “making faces,” and to that end has turned its beautiful countenance toward The News several times. Failing to attract the the attention it wants it takM the next step in small-boy logic—abuse and misrepresentation. It hammers itself to a white heat and then proceeds to characterize The News as a paper of remarable idiosyncrasies; an inconsistent and jaundiced independent organ; as having denied,belittled and excused outrages upon southern colored men for years; having encouraged negrohanging in the south, by its teachings; being the apologist of the mob-massacre of the Chisholm family, and finally of waving the bloody shirt in the Posey county affair. Whatever opinion the Courier holds of the The News’s course and complexion, it should not undertake to retail The News's sentiments unless it can do so truthfully, which it does not do when it says The News was the apologist of the Chisholm murder. If it will consult the files of this paper daring the summer of 1877, it will find such expressions

as these on that subject:

“The authorities of Miwisssppi can not bo condemned too severely for their indifference “- 1 - outrage. ***“ —“—*'

wherev”

■sal this

Yet they are not unlike authorities ebe-

Perhaps the weakest thing in Tildeu’s denial—certainly the most puerile—is his assertion that as the object of his election was to accomplish such great reforms in national nflairs as he had already accomplished in the affairs of New York state, and as attempts at bribery would hamper him in carrying out snch affaire, therefore he could not have had any knowledge of the cipher telegrams. If Mr. Tilden had made such an argument aa that in any of his law cases he would have been laughed out of court. The News is without any partisan bias in this case. It takes no pleasure in condemning Mr. Tilden and does not forget that the majority of the ballots in November, 187G, named him as president. But in the light of the (>regon case, to say nothing of this later revelation concerning Florida and South Carolina and the still more personal proceeding in the book-stealing episode of nis income tax suit, it is a piece of monstrous hypocrisy for him to pose as a reformer, an evidence of weakness for him to offer himself in that character as proof that he could do no wrong; plainlv his defence is insufficient. He is morally guilty, as the case stands.

'“Secretary Evarta should write to Governor Stone at once, and while he is about It be may as well take a manifold copy and send one to Governor Hartranft in Pennsylvania, another to Governor Young In Ohio, and Governor McCreary in Vermont, for similar atrocious murders, and one to Governor Williams in this state about the doings of the vigilants at Mitchell. A united north demands that these outrages end.,’ * It is from such extracts as these that the Courier says we apologized and defended the Chisholm murder. The Journal of this city attempted some such accusation at the time, and The-News replied to it then as it does to

the Courier now:

“It la needless to say thet we do not palliate the the Chisholm outrage or any other outrage at the south or any other point of the compass.” And we added then what has renewed force now that “outrages as gross and murders as terrible bad been committed in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Kentucky and this state;” that “all the proscription does not exist south, nor do all the murders happen there, nor is all the hanging done in the northand we

stated what we repeat:

7 here has been a condition of things in southern Indiana for yews which is a match for Misrtaaippi

'1 points. T(~ '

;S, and ten

Mitchell). W’hat have we been doing

cade? Let us have patience with a state which has

been cursed with system, commei Let us have a fs

We can add now that in a year since then Indiana has been disgraced again by mob law. We do not recall that Mississippi has in the same time. But whether she has or not, we have advocated the same rule for both states, and the Courier should go and get itself trephined if it can not see that such views as we have held and do hold on this subject, instead of encouraging crime and apologizing for it, condemn it and ask for its punishment, while they plead for all men’s charity against the view of narrowminded partisans like the Courier that can see a difference in an Ohio and a Mississippi murder. At ihe time of this occurrence the Courier made a vain attempt to antagonize The News by some muddle-headed asseri ion to the effect that The News “pretended there was no difference between ihe Chisholm murder and murders equally attrocicus in the north.” We admitted tnen,* as we confess now, that we can not see a difference in crimes equally attrocions, and we gave up then, as we do now, any attempt at instilling jnstice into the Madison Courier. We have a right to demand this nrech, however, that it cease to misrepresent The News; that it inform itself on what it attempts to talk, and if it can not tell the truth that it hold its tongue.

at all points. Ten years ago we badlands of vig-'

Yhat fiavp^we been doing in^thia dehave patience with a state which has aritb slavery; which has had all its lercial, civil and political, broken up.

fair deal and fair play.

A POOP BULK. Hr. XTMhy’a X4MC akyHw with FUta of Ymriona Kind*. ^ (Wteh fafaTtheltate ft K^Urnky,)! October 15,1878. j The October eleeshnns aint es satisfactory n they mite her bin, but they will do. We hev lost Ohio and Iowa, but we hev gobbled Injeanyand West Virginity. The grate ooz uv finanshel salvashen hez not ez yit passed into triomph, but it hezn’t bin killed, wich is some comfort. Ther is yit room for hoj>e. Wheat hez cum down five cents a bnshel in oonsekence uv the dismal prospeck that ther won’t be no European war, and that encourages ns. The people never did ascribe the low price of perdoose to anything but the party in power, and this drop, ef it prOTi* denshelly continyooe. -ill make votes lor ns. The price of perdoose controls a great deel more than any one hez any idee uv. I hev knowd a providenshel potato rot to electa democratic member uv congris. Is-aker Gavitt is growing daily more gloomy ez the prospex uv a giacral European war diminishes. “It’scrooel, ”eez he,with a tear in each eye. “No war in Europe, and I’ve got ten hogs which I wanted a high price fur. This world is full of disappointments. I don’t suppose pork on foot will now be wuth more than three cents a pound. Wat do them European c&binita mean ?” Bui this is a diversion. “I supposed that when we bed ishood our fiat money that our troubles wuz over. I sup] used that, when the common council of the Corners bed ishood a currency based upon the good faith uv the Corners, and bed passed an ordinance making it legle tender, that everything wood go along smoothly, and that the era uv prosperity which we nev all been lookin’ for wood immeiitly set in. But it don’t work wuth a cuss. We hed expectid to be relieved uv our indebtednis to Pollock & Bigler, but unfortunitly them disturbers, with a foresite that is feendish, hev persistently refoozed the dimocrisy uv the Corners credit for many veers, so that* we don’t owe them anything. And Pollock remarked vishusly that ef we did owe him anything he wood ez soon take pay in fiat money ez anything else he wuz likely to git from us, ez he never expectid anything anyhow. But we decided to git even with him. I went into his store and asked for a pare uv boots. “All rite,”sed Pollock, “wat kind uv money do yoo perpose to pay in ? the glorious fiat uv the present or the despised greenback uv the “Sir!” I remarkt impressively, “I am too patriotic not to assist in getting our new

perdoosin a

strip of leather. “Them is the boots.” A “But they is not boots,” I exclaimed. “Wat kin I do with that strip uv leather?” ‘ Jist ez much ez I kin with yoor money. You say that piece uv paper yoo hev is money—I say that piece of leather is boots. My v ord is, I trust, ez good ez yours.” And with a fiendish laff he told Joe Bigler to keep an eye on me, and turned around sellin substanshel boots to a nigger farmer wicb

hed national bank notes.

Sadly I went over to Bascom’s, and foundthere tne entire Corners discussin the finan-

CUKRKNT COMMENT. Pig Iron Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who calls himself a republican and who expects to be re-elected to congress by national votes, thinks the recent elections were a national triumph; thinks further that the attempt to resume will be a failure, and will probably bring on a panic and will be the grandest as well as the costliest farce ia our history. If the republicans are the hard money people of the country it is time they read the Pig Iron Kelleys out of the party. The nationals claim to hold the balance of power in the Indiana legislature, and are beginning to question Mr. Voorhees’ sincerity as a greenbacker.—[Chicago Inter-Ocean. These claims amount to little unless they are lacked by consistent action. If the na-tionah-elect stand by their principles, be the consequence what they may, their party can ccme before the people and ask support as a party. But if Voorhees is a “good enough greenbacker” for them, they will simply become the tail of the democratic dog that wears a collar labeled “D.W.V.; U.S.S.” The nationals in Ohio polled 38,832 votes in the last election for their secretary of state, the candidate receiving the greatest number of votes. This is six and a half per cent, of the entire vote of the state, and a gain over their last vote of one and a half per cent. The Ohio nationals do not resemble a Jos ah’s gomd or Jack's bean stalk, to say the least. How could the president change this “policy ?" What order could he issue that would reinstate Packard and Chamberlain in the governments of Louisiana and South Carolina? What “policy” could he adopt that would wrench the administration of the southern states from the whites and restore power to the blacks and carpet baggers? None! Until he can do these things it is folly to talk of a change in the ‘‘aouthern policy,” which, indeed was not a “policy” at all, but, as Mr. Hayes has repeatedly said in his messages, an act which was required of the executive by the plain letter of the constitution.—[Detroit News. • If a client were in his position and sought his oeinicn as to the sufficiency of the denial an (Tits completeness as a declaration of innocence, we are sure that he would instantly detect its weak point, and would show that all that is essential in the accusation remains untiucbed. The nephew whom the uncle would have us believe dishonored him remains his confidential assistant. We have not heard that he has cast off Mr. Marble; and within a month Mr. Smith Weed has figured as his mouthpiece and friend. While these men, and such as these, retain their relationship to Mr. Tilden. we shall place little reliance upon his professions of innocence and integrity.—[New York Times. The Nile Inundation. The inundation of the Nile which carried away the dyke on the Damitta branch of the river, has immersed 80,000 acres of land, on which were 15 villages.

shel sityooashen. mere was UeeKin Uogra in his old familyer chair, there was Issaker

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There was Deekin Pogram

rer

lyin on bis back on a round table that the

citizens play keerds upon when it is aroused, and Captain McPelter leanin against the bar, all sighin at the scarsity uv money and the deprest condishun uv ‘industry. It wuz a site I h^e seed a thousand time and it meltid me. I determined to demonstrate that there wuz one patriot that wood respeck the laws uv his native place, and accept her cur-

rency.

“Gentlemen,” I sez, firmly, “step up. Bascom, set em up.” Pascom hed bin takin our monev for some days, and hed bin to Looisville for likker. He sot out the bottle with a sardonic grin that boded us no good. We each poured out the likker, however, and placed the glasses to our respective lips. Immejitly every man spitted the likwid out upon the floor. I turned sick, for I had uncawshusly swallered a little uv it. It wcz Wateb! tub first I red tasted for years! “Wat does this mean, sir?" I demanded feercely. “Don’t like the whiskey?” wuz hiz anser, ez he glared feercely at me. “Like it! Like it! Why, it’s water!” “Bless yoor sole,” repled Bascom, “why don’tyoo'fnn/Us whiskey? The minit yoo say it s whiskey it w whiskey. Yoo say the paper yoo want to pay me in is a dollar, jist becoz yoo m;/ it is a dollar, and why in bloody thunder can’t yoo make whiskey oat uv water by jist sayin it’s whiskey. GkxTLKMKN, THIS IS FIAT WHISKEY, and it’s the only kind I kin git with fiat money. When you pit to pavin in the comfortable old greenback or the modest nickle, all rite. I’ll give yco the regler old bowel scorcher. But the likker is goin to assimilale to the money. I learned that word in Louisville. Ef yoo want to pay in fiat money yoo arc goin to git fiat likker.* Ef yoo kin* imagine a piece of paper with your* stamp onto it is a dollar, you must likewise imagine this fiooid to be good likker, and vice versy. Parson, this is all you will ever git with your kind uv money. ’ And he leaned back again bis bottles with a defiant air, and we sank back terrified. Where is the end to be? 1 don’t know. Oh! lhat Butler would carry Massychoosits, and git into power, so that his genius rood solve this problem. Ef Bascom repudiates the fiat money it i?all over here. Pbtrolium V. Nasby, Finanseer. The Afghan War. A dispatch from Simla says the government fully realizes the danger or rashness, but much mav be done before winter sets in. The Khyber pass is open throughout the year. The following is the substance of the Ameer’s message to the Viceroy: “You may do your worst. The issue is in God’s bands.”* The Ameer's message has been- telegraphed to England, and a reply indicating the course of procedure is expected to-mor-

A Hob Anniversary. The fortr-third anniversary of the “Garrison mob” was observed in* Boston Yesterday by a reception at the Woman’s club room. Besides Garrison, there were present W. Phillips, A. Bronson Alcott, Judge Sewell, Colonel T. W. Higginson, Marshall P. Wilder, Judge Thcmas Russell and others. Speeches were delivered by Garrison, Phillips, Alcott and Mayor Buffum, of Lynn. The Troubles In Tensas. Referring to the recent troubles there, a communication from the district attorney of Tensas parish to the governor of Louisiana, states that a sheriff's posse of fifty men,going to issue a writ for the arrest of Fairfax, were fired upon by four hundred armed negroes. The posse returned the fire, killing and wounding eight negroes and dispersing the balance. The Canadian Cabinet. The following additional appointments have been made to the new cabinet, and it is now complete: Hon. McKenzie Bowell, minister of customs; Hon. Alexander Campbell, recorder general; Hon. J. C. Aikens. secretary of state; Hon. L. T. Baby, minister of inland revenue; Hon. J. C. Pope, minister of marine and fisheries. A Colored Preacher Pounded to Death. A colored oreacher named Houston Robinton was attacked bv unknown colored men on the corner of Arch and Fifth streets. Little Rock. Saturday night. He was pounded until insensible and died at an early hour yesterday morning.

Bairn la aa Autumn Night* Drip, drop! drip,drop! Hear the rain comedown, Over the valley, lone and .till, And ever the sleeping town; Over the tree, that wave and gleam, With a murmurous tone and low. I can not sleep, and I can not dream, I love to hear it ao. Drip, drop! drip, drop! Listening to It. fall I wander back to the past again. And hear my loved one* call Out from the shorn where they have gone, As In the days of yore; And with them I mem to journey on, Weary and weeping no more. Drip, drop! drip, drop! Down from the Moping eevee; And over my lost and wasted powers My eolations spirit grieves; And pore resolves, which the Father hear*. And the angels love to know, Spring up to bless the gathering years, In tummer time and mow.

Drip, drop! drip drop! So well the sound 1 love!

I wonder oft if the angel, hear

Sweeter mode above.

Earth ha. it. melodise, rich and rare

And strain, of ‘ '

But noi

oaiee, rich ant

— glad delight:

at none, methinks, that will e'er compare

With the rain-drops in the night.

SCRAPS*

Table covers of white paper are the latest. | Croquet is the only game in which the

stakes are put up at both ends.

Subject for bald-headed stump speakers:

“Give us protection at the polls I”

The most hideous bngs and reptiles seem to

lie the popular ordamente for bonnets.

A N. Y. teacher found a lad of eight reading “Shorty on his ear, or always on a

racket.”

Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, the other day in jail killed a kitten with his

knife and fork.

A prpfesser of palmistry says that long,thin fingers indicate a love for song. Bank cashiers in Chicago must love song.—[N. Y. Her-

ald.

Hoyle was seventy years old when he wrote his “Treatise on whist.” He indulged incessantly in the game until he was ninetyseven. There is a Pontic rhododendron ia the grounds of Lord Annesley, at Castlewellan, County Down Ireland, 262 feet in circumference and 23 feet high. A West Virginia orator addressed a college meeting recently aa follows: “Mr. President, members of the Faculty, modest ladies and heroic men.” Miss Neilson, after filling her projected engagement of one hundred nights in the United States, will proceed to Australia, and after a tour through the colonies will retire from the stage. A woman hearing a great deal about “preserving autumn leaves” put up some, but afterward told a neighbor they were not fit to eat, and she might as well have thrown her sugar away. It puzzles a man beyond all expression to bend over a trade dollar and gaze into the dissembled face, and wonder and wonder and wonder where that missing 10 cents got out and where it has gone.—[Burlington Hawk-

eye.

Doting mother: “Yes, I shall be happy to give you the wages you ask, but 1 shall expect you to love the dear children.” Nurse: f T shall be very happy to do so, ma m, but of course that would be an extra.”—[Funny

Folks.

Some years ago a Dr. Lewis was driven out of Holly Springs, Mississippi, because of political sentiments. When the yellow fever broke out there recently be hastened thither and aided the sufferers till he was smitten

down and died.

Paris is taxed 100 francs per head of the population, and rest of France pays only six francs per head. All meat and drink brought into Paris pay duty, and from this source during the. coming year 126,703,000

Danes are expected.

About sixty bodies of Boston’s dead paupers are annually given away to the doctors

for dissection without regard to

of the

to the protests

ic dying or their friends, and the common council don’t care enough about it to order the investigation petitioned for. • The religious papers of England are discussing the momentous question. “Ought clergymen to wear mustaches?” We think, as coid weather comes on, they should, and on days of extreme severity they might add a pair of trousers and a thick vest.—[Ex. Edward Overton, one of the oldest and ablest members of the Pennsylvania bar, died at Elmira Thursday. He was bom in Lancashire, England, in 1795, and was the father-in-law of E. P. Hammond, tire “evangelist,” and the falher of Edward Ovmon, jr, M. 0.

of Pennsylvania.

Some one has suggested that if the inventor of the phonograph would bring out a little machine to be attached to the front door which would say, when the landlord called for the rent, “Come again next month,” it would have a good sale. So it would; and if he wanted a name for it, he might call it the post-ponograph.—[Judy. The statistics of the file industry of the. United States may be briefly summaried as follows: There are seveu manufacturers making machine-cut tiles, operating together about 275 machines, which at the present time are probably averaging 1,500 dozen files per day. These seven companies also produce together abont 200 dozen hand-cut files, making a total of 1,700 dozen per day as the product of the seven principal file manufac-

turing companies.

Should Edison's electric light prove a success it will completely revolutionize the artistic science of photography. By means of the light, which is perfectly colorless, clear and resembles the sun’s rays in its lightgiving properties, pictures can lie taken as well in the night as they can in the dav. It will totally do away with the use of the sun’s light in the art. The different gradations of light from dim to strong can be regulated far easier by this light than by sunlight. Uniformly even photographs can then be taken.

Time te Retrench.

The people of Troy, N. Y., begin to realite lhat it is high time to retrench in city and county expenses, as they reflect that their taxes are three times what they were in 1860 ($793,262 to $275,620), though city and county together have added but 18,725 to their population, and everything but rents is down

to ante-war prices. Firea Yesterday.

Woods k Connahan’s candle factory, on Central avenue, near Liberty street, Cincinnati, was burned last night. Loss $50,000;

fully ii sured.

A* fire at Dearborn, Mich-ycsterday, destroyed the depot, a number of freight cars and 500 cords of wood. Loss unknown.

rnxxNO up.

Death of Biahop Koaecrans. Right Rev. Svlvester H. Rosecrans, Bishop of Columbus died at Columbus at 10:30 last night of hemorrhage of the lungs. He was taken quite ill on Sunday losing much blood, but last night was thought to be much better until a short time before he breathed his last.

Anti-Socialism in Germany. The federal council has given its assent to the anti-socialist bill, and its early promulgation as a law of the empire ia expected.

An Apparent Improvement In If the general affirmation of the preaa and of business men ia not enough to satiafy the

there ia one evidence that no petulance or peasimism can reject That ia the filling np of vacant houses. It ia better than housebuilding, better than big weekly reports of railroad transportation, better than the disappearance of tramps, and that evidence every one familiar with the city cees all abont in the business quarters as well as in the suburbs and tenement regions. There are plenty of little cottages yet with “To rent” on the doors Or windows, but many that showed the mark of hard times four or five months ago are occupied now, and hardly a day passes that the ram bln-* reporter does pot notice another house filled. The fine new blocks on Bonth Pennsylvania street, roath of Maryland, until recently were mostly empty. At one time since their completion, there was not more than two or three rooms occnpied between Maryland and Georgia streets. Now every one is full of goods and business of

Matyr's flummery about the increased distress of the coming winter, and the brutality of the republicans who wouldn’t keep all the unemployed of the country at work. There are a dozen or more business houses in those blocks alone, in active operation now, more than there was a year or so ago. If that is a sign of bad times and winter destitution, a thunder storm is a sure sign of a drouth. Abont Testimonials. The Journal not only disapproves of the suggestion published in this paper yesterday, that the citizens of Indianapolis provide an appropriate testimonial for Charles Evans as a recognition of his heroism in going to Memphis when the yellow plague was at its higbt, but belittles the act and sneers that he “did not do any great amount of nursing.” The testimonial is characterized as “a puerile attempt on the part of inconsiderate friends to work up a little cheap glory” for Mr. Evans. The quotidian blunderer would doubtless more favorably consider a proposition to provide a testimonial for the North Illinois street deadfall, an institution that has always received its heartiest approbation and support.

ay the medical authori-

Building up a Market In order to open up a market for hard coal in Europe, Philadelphia presents an American coal stove to each large purchaser, and thus introducee the stove and coal.

The Fever Subsiding. [Memphis dispatch.]

Visiting physicians and nurses are already making their arrangements to leave for their homes, and soon this grand hospital will be cob verted into a business metropolis, crowded and jammed with the eager masses from the interior, anxious to replenish their exhausted stocks of groceries and merchandise for which the trains and steamers will be loaded to their utmost capacities with cotton and other produce to be given in exchange. Physicians are somewhat anxious for fear the rush will come too soon, and that the eager desire to return and resume business may cause a fresh outbreak of the fever, which can only be averted by a continuous spell of cold weather. They admonish refugees not to return until

authorized to do so b;

ties.

The relief association are making preparations to wind up business. The citizens’ relief, at a meeting yesterday, resolved not to issue any more rations after the 25th inst. In regard to the surplus money on hand, they resolved that $20,000 of the funds on hand and held by the mayor and citizens’ relief committee be divided between the several orphan asylums, such division of funds to be pro rate, according to the number of orphans and the amount of funds each asylum has to provide for. The Howards have taken no action on this subject yet, and the supply trains on the various roads, which are now doing the principal business, will continue to run as long as there is a demand for attentions to the sick in places udjacent to Memphis. Political. The democratic leaders of Iowa, owiug to the recent action of the republican national committee in Washington city, are preparing to take active measures to secure the profit of the November congressional elections. Tammany hall has made the following congressional nominations: Sixth district, S. S. Cox; seventh district, Anthony Eickhoff; eighth district, Lawrence R. Jerome; ninth district, Fernando Wood: tenth district, Orlando B. Potter; eleventh district, Benjamin A. Willis. The Blair-Connolly greenback labor party in the ninth district, N. Y., nominated John Hardy for congress, and the Hanlon-O’Riley branch of the same party, in the same district, has nominated Pat H. Jones. The democratic congressional convention in the fourth district of Brooklyn nominated Archibald M. Bliss; the fifth congressional district Tammany democratic convention nominated Nicholas Muller. Hon. John F. House was unanimously renominated as a candidate for congress for the sixth congressional district of Tennessee, veMeiday by the democrate? Murders In Tennessee. A party of white men, on last Friday night, entered the dwelling of a negro living on the farm of George H. Millington, near Glencoe, Tennessee, a town fifteen miles north of Memphis, and killed him while lying in bed with Lis w ife and children. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he came to his death from a gun and pistol shot wound inflicted by Hill and McCain. McCain was arrested, but Hill fled and was pursued by J. L. Tally, constable, and a posse of three men, who overtook Hill the following morning at Cuba, Tenn.,five miles distant from the Sfene of the murder. They attempted to arrest the fugitive, who, drawing too pistols, defied the officers and effected his escape. .Several negroes living in the neighborhood of Cuba, hearing of the murder, last Saturday night killed a white man named Baird, who was found asleep on the porch of a grocery store at Cuba. The negroes riddled his body with buckshot, thinking he was the in:inHill, who had resisted arrest that morning. Reception to Melody and Condon. A reception was given to Melody and Condon at Cooper institute,New York, last night. Hon. Aug. Schell occupied the chair and John J. Breslin read letters from Fernando W'ooct. Benjamin F. Butler, Dion Bqucicault and others, regretting their inability to be present. Condon and Melody were introduced, and received round after round of cheers. .Cbarl** Francis Adams was denounced for his ajiathy while minister to England. Minister Welsh, Messrs. Cox, Conkling, Hewitt, Matthews and others were thanked.

Damaged Orangemen. The Orangemen have entered actions of damages against the mayor at Montreal, for false arrest on the 12th of July. David Grant, county master claims $10,000, the others $5,000. Death of a Defaulter. Adolph Benneeke, defaulting city treasure of Bloomington, 111., died yesterday of yellow fever in New Orleans. U is thought he went to the infected district with suicidal intent. American Wheat In Europe. The Vienna New Free Press complains that the export of Hungarian wheat is almost at a stand still partly in conseqnense of America underselling the Hungarian market. Honors to Americans. Commissioner McCormick, W. W. Story, and Profs. Edison, White and Gray, were awarded the decoration of the legion of honor at the Paris exposition, yesterday.

education.

The Moral and Intellectaal Training Children Oet-YUw. •* *>*• Superintendent

of FabUe lustruction.

A News reporter having overheard a portion of a conversation between Prof. jTh Smart and a gentleman upon the nuhlic schools and their nsefolnem, especially i n regard to tht moral training of the young idea, was led to have a farther talk with him, asking his opinion of the caose of youthful misbehavior, which has attracted so much attention in our large cities of late, to which

he replied:

“Well, the New York Tribune will tell yon all abont that It insinuates that the public schools are to blame for whatever of juvenile depravity there is to complain of. I have seen it charged also tbftt out of 1,300 prisoners in Sic£ Sing prison 400 of them were gradu-

ates of high schools.”

“What do you say to these statements?” “So far as the statement in the New England Journal is concerned, I believe it is

untrue.”

“What do you i Tribune?”

sy to the insinnations ia the

“No one acquainted with the matter could possibly make such a charge as that.” “Do you think that the teachers are responsible for the moral conduct of the chil-

dren ?”

“They are to some extent. Teachers should be required to set a good example before the children. They should certainly

this respect There is no better place to teach morals than at home. Self-control is a habit and the child must acquire it long before it enters school. Most men would do better than they do; they fail because they have bad habits. They do wrong because they have not the power of self-mastery when they are tempted. Cheerfulness is another moral quality which should be possessed by children. The cheerful man lives longer and accomplishes more than one who is morose and ill-natured. The habit of cheerfulness should be acquired by children at a verv early age. It is the duty of parents to see that their children possess these, and other moral qualities, quite os much as the teach-

ers.”

“The teachers are somewhat responsible for the moral condnct of their children ?”. “Undoubtedly, bat the teachers must leave some of the responsibility to the parents. They can never take the place of the home, the church and the Sunday school. The public schools must certainly leave a little of the responsibility of managing the children to the parents. Besides this, the petty criminals, the juvenile delinquents, no not come from the ranks of those, who attend the public schools. It will be tar nearer the truth to say, that they come from the ranks ef those who have not good homes. Good schools are of great value to a community, but good homes can do for the children, what good

schools can never do.”

“Do you think that the teachers do their work in this respect as well as the parents T” “Quite as well, possibly better. Teachers spend most of their time in perfecting the scholarship of their pupils,but our intelugant teachers do realize that character is superior to scholarship, and they do try, as a rule, to teach children to be truthful and honest and to respect the rights of others. They do give them habits of industry, regularity and promptness. The habit of being behind time in respect to one’s duties and obligations is one of the glaring evils of the day. It is an open doorway to crime, and men are tumbling over the uncertain line that is drawn between negligence and criminality every day by the thousand, and 1 am sure that the work which the public schools are doing in giving the pupils habits of punctuality and con- — their attendance upon school is

upon school

community than their

stancy

worth more to

cost.”

“Do you think the teachers do all the good they can in this respect?” “Certainly not. A perfect life is a better example than an imnerfect life. We can not claim that our teachers are quite perfect yet. Crookedness in the disiodtion, habits and

:rtainly possess something ship. Teachers should be selected with reference to their manners, their integrity, their force of character, or in other words, in respect to the moral qualities they (HMsess as as well as in respect to their scholarship. In this respect some of our teachers are warth ten times as much as others. Our best teachers are not half paid for their services, our Itoorest teachers are overpaid. It is easy for a teacher to do more harm than good, indeed I think we bare some teachers in the state that are not worth dynamite enough to blow them up with. On the whole, I think we get more service from our teachers than we pay for. I suppose the average lady teacher in the country receives less than $150 for her services per annum.” “Do the parents care as much for the religious training of their children as for the mental training?” “As a rule 1 am sure they do not. The farentsare quite willing to see to it that their children attend day school and get their lesson. 1 believe that it is the common observation that they are not quite so anxious in respect to the Sunday school. I fear the children know a good deal more about the arithmatic than they do about the biblo.” ‘ That is true of the old folks, too.” “I found a Presbyterian elder, the other day, who could not tell me the names of the twelve apostles. He managed to mine five out of the twelve. People are not as keenly alive to the importance of moral training u they are to the importance of mental training. You tell the average man that his eon is a brilliant scholar, but that he does not behave well, and you will make a friend of him; but if you tell the man that his boy is good, but that he is a dunce, you will run imminent ritk of getting knocked down.” “\\ hat is the chief agency in the degradation of our young people, so far as it occurs?” “Well. 1 should say that bad literature is the devil’s most powerful weapon in this work.” “Then an education means & good deal more than the mere acquisition of information.” “Yes sir, I have said as much as that a hundred times in public. Onr best teachers understand very well that taking out a child’s brains and stuffing the vacuum with a few 1 looks is nol education. As has been well said, if you train a roan’s body only yon make a magnificent brute, if you train his body and bis mind you make a magnificent scoundrel, and if you train his body, his mind and his heart you have a magnificent specimen of manhood. Right education will make manly men and womenly women. The school plays an important part in this work, but there are other agencies of just as much importance and with whom the responsibility must certainly be divided.

’ A Hall Needed. To the Editor of The Indianapolis News: Indianapolis will be obliged ere long to provide an increased audience room to accommodate the national and international conventions that persist in assembling here. There is no room in this city half Urge enough to seat the delegates to the reunion of the army of the Tennessee, who are expected to meet here next week. Several of the conventions that have met here during the past two jnn have found our accommodations entirely too limited for their requirements. . . I would suggest that the cheapest and speediest plan, and perhaps best, would befqr the city to get control of the exposition building, remodel it to some extent, and induca the street railroad company to build * track from their Massachusetts avenue line to the south entrance t*.